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Title: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: Anne T on May 18, 2008, 05:57:05 PM
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2279772,00.html

Fairport make no 7 in the Observer Music Monthly's most memorable festival appearances.   ;D
Sadly, it does not seem to be for the quality of the musical performance though  :o


Title: Re: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: KascadeDan on May 18, 2008, 06:16:08 PM
Peggy and Swarb did what now? ??? :o


Title: Re: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: peterwales on May 18, 2008, 06:17:21 PM
Bert Jansch has some intersting observations on playing and/or attending festivals, on page 27, including his views on the use of big screens at folk festivals-i.e. how they can destroy a sense of festival community.


Title: Re: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: jaypeter (Peter) on May 18, 2008, 06:17:34 PM

http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2279772,00.html

Fairport make no 7 in the Observer Music Monthly's most memorable festival appearances.   ;D
Sadly, it does not seem to be for the quality of the musical performance though  :o


It's all here.

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/krumlin-mud.html


Title: Re: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: peterwales on May 18, 2008, 06:19:43 PM

Peggy and Swarb did what now? ??? :o


Well, it was the end of the 60's- as exemplified by the ethos of that wonderfull fimn "Withnail and I".


Title: Re: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: peterwales on May 18, 2008, 07:51:39 PM
There does exist a bootleg recording (David wil be aware of this) of Sandy Denny singing with a band she calls the "Happy Blunderers" or something like that, at, I think it was meant the Lincoln festival of 1971(?). The band is essentially Fairport, (Denny, Pegg, Thompson, Conway), I believe. Thinking about it, I wonder if it may have been recorded at this Krumlin festival instead, as comments made by Sandy, and the actual quality of the recording, indicate conditions wherever it was, were dreadfull-(meaning the weather, not the state of Dave Peggs' trousers!).


Title: Re: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: davidmjs on May 18, 2008, 08:03:16 PM

There does exist a bootleg recording (David wil be aware of this) of Sandy Denny singing with a band she calls the "Happy Blunderers" or something like that, at, I think it was meant the Lincoln festival of 1971(?). The band is essentially Fairport, (Denny, Pegg, Thompson, Conway), I believe. Thinking about it, I wonder if it may have been recorded at this Krumlin festival instead, as comments made by Sandy, and the actual quality of the recording, indicate conditions wherever it was, were dreadfull-(meaning the weather, not the state of Dave Peggs' trousers!).


It's definitely recorded at Lincoln  :) - 24th Jul 71, and you're spot on with the band lineup...not a bad, band, eh?!

Late November
The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
Blackwaterside
The Optimist
Next Time Around
The Lady
John The Gun


Title: Re: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: PLW (Peter) on May 20, 2008, 04:35:22 PM

Peggy and Swarb did what now? ??? :o


It was rock and roll in those days!


Title: Re: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: Staffan on May 21, 2008, 10:04:08 AM


Peggy and Swarb did what now? ??? :o


It was rock and roll in those days!

It certainly was. And different days.
I read it laughing out loud. ;D
Has certainly made my day!  8)

P.S. Go, Chelsea, Go! D.S.


Title: Re: Fairport in Observer Music Magazine
Post by: Pat Helms on May 21, 2008, 12:30:29 PM
I recently read in Folk Bastard Monthly that Oliver Stone will, in fact, re-edit the the infamous, but key, Krumlin footage back into his film adaptation of the Full House years - Lads on the Ledge for the DVD "directors cut."

You might recall that originally, Jack White who portrays Pegg in the film, insisted that the scene be cut due to his real life tendency for performing in white pants and the potential sigma of being type cast.

However, since the film did so poorly with projected DVD sales of approximately 328, Mr. White has conceded that the resortation should have little, if any, lasting consequence on his career.